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It’s important to start Championship Sunday off with a hearty, nutritious breakfast. Let’s see if those Florida boys can handle the cold and snow. GPG!

Lantern Festival same footprint as Assembly Square. They put a lot of expensive pieces and build techniques that you will never see in the finished product when they could have just used some grey 4x2s and decreased the cost. All printed pieces, some dual sided prints and translucent prints. This is a premium set.

So, the house is almost framed, and the basement lego area is looking good... only 2 months till everything is done and we are all back in and the city can begin. Meanwhile, I am also moving our shop, so I had to consolidate all of our "home" lego in to one corner so we can move everything out... Here it is... all of the backlog and sorted parts...

I decided to start 10276 Colosseum last night. Definitely going to take my time building and enjoying this one.

I built 40448 Vintage Car today. Love it!

Built all 4 of these! One of my favorite little Creator sets!!!!

My favorite Sunday morning activity

razor back at amazon Amazon.com: LEGO Star Wars: The Mandalorian The Razor Crest 75292 Exclusive Building Kit, New 2020 (1,023 Pieces): Toys & Games

London Bus $100 at Walmart (28.5% off $140) https://www.walmart.com/ip/LEGO-Creator-Expert-London-Bus-10258/434422424

In excitement for the Gardens arriving, built a couple smaller Ninjago sets. Wu's Battle Dragon was my favorite of the 3, I loved the final product. I've missed on discounts for the Skull Sorcerer's dragon so far, I'll hopefully find that one soon. "Thou shall not buy Lego at full retail unless a promo is included"

Ok, it is the holiday lull... unless you chose to ship FBM this year! So, a diversion is in order. I have been planning on building a city for a while, and it is nearly time. To be honest, I resell lego just to fund my lego city account. Our basement is almost done, (I will start building new lego tables in January) and I have an area, not as large as I would like, but much bigger than nothing! So I am building a tiered city, using Eureka Springs, Arkansas as my inspiration It. It is built into the side of an Ozark Mountain, and it very "tiered". I would love to see all of your layouts for inspiration, so post them below! I will try to update my progress on here as I go. Here is a photo of our build area, that will move to be next to the new city. (side note: if anyone has a good strategy to get an 8 year old master builder to clean up after himself... I would love to hear it!)

....Oh what the hell. Go, Packers, Go!

One flat plate rise per track length and no corners while climbing but my trains usually make it up to next level with just a little slipping.

My goal is to build my city into a coffee table. I wanted something that I could drop modulars into as well as design my own. I also needed a train because what is a Lego city without a train. I'm currently working to modify the Hogwarts express to fit under my arch way. Soon I'll start adding lighting. I am now considering expanding the city and going away from the coffee table idea. I also sell Lego to fund the habit.

How wrong am I on this one! The UCS version was taking ages to appreciate and not getting much until the pandemic. Was little wary about this set and didn’t go deep. Boom! Pandemic and appearance in The Mandalorian just sent this one crazy. Got a few from local store and during BF on discount. Down to my last one. What’s the view on this one going forward. I’m holding for $300 before selling the last remaining one. Sold a bunch for $250.

I bet they’d all look good together. I was *this close* to picking up the Gardens today. Curious about both.

I could work on that next weekend? I want to see how it looks next to Ninjago Garden.

Still love this set. I had picked up a second one to make a huge bridge, but COVID scarcity/profit and a lack of display space “forced” me to sell.

Lego is currently the ONLY thing in my life not currently covered with a thick layer of dust! Priorities.

Part two of the prior short.

well, that's one way to keep the dust off your Lego

Here I try to respond with something witty yet can only muster a rhyme that is sh***y. The time flew past I blew it out my ass. ....Damn I suck at this.

Another example of the big difference between US and UK / EU prices

fair. it is possibly a sophisticated system created as only one of myriad puzzle pieces in a gigantic system which only exists to undermine our precious and divine cultural norms, slowly, imperceptibly even, pushing us all into the arms of Satan and George Soros. or... Anyone care to guess?

I had high hopes for this set, remember seeing at legp shop and looked really good. Retired Jan 18, so almost 3 years, and yet bay UK price is less than RRP (csn pick up for £90, RRP was £100). Noticed that there is a bunch of sets that retired 2017 / 2018 that just haven't performed well. Maybe there was too much supply. Even "rubbish" sets that retired in 2019 / 2020 have already outperformed CAGR wise. Interesting times to see what 2021 has in store.

Went to a local LEGO store to get a Bookshop for personal build (first modular for me, at least to keep) and ended up with a couple Lion Dance at 20% as well.

I had one earlier this month. This buyer is nice enough and ask how he can pay for it again. So, I re-list it but change the title to incomplete/for parts so no one else would buy it. I let this buyer knows i will mark it shipped after receiving his/her (re-)payment. (Yes, EBAY buyers are kinder and nicer compare to those Amazon buyers. Maybe this buyer action is typical, normal human actions but my view of human kindness has been tainted by Amazon scammers)

Features a tour down the Lego isle at the 8 min mark. Anyone remember taking a slip of paper to buy your favorite NES game?

I've had a great 'beat the system' moment today. I have a used copy of 7676 Republic Gunship in which the skirt for the Asajj Ventress minifigure has been cut and so needs replacing. The cost of the skirt on Bricklink is crazy high, with the cheapest UK price being £18 (while the entire figure can be purchased for ~ £14 plus shipping - not sure why this is lower). Bricklink will tell you that this skirt is only to be found on this figure, either from 7676 or some Comic-Con exclusive. However, I noticed that Asajj Ventress keychains were available for far less, and that these have the skirt on them. I decided to take a risk, and bought one of these keychains for about £3 plus postage. In theory these keychain figures can't be dismantled, but in practice they dismantle quite easily when they are crushed in a vise (so long as you don't want the parts!). I crushed the innocent figure, and can happily report that the skirt survived intact, and was not irreversibly kraggled to either the torso or legs. I have another 7676 where the skirt isn't missing, so I've checked and the skirt is definitely the right part. Saved myself more than £10 there for a single part. Small win, but feels good.

My assistant got dumped by her boyfriend today, so I am comforting myself with this set this afternoon 😀

I finally opened the shipping box and lo and behold. Arrived in excellent condition no shelf wear, no stickers, scratches, dings, etc... Looks like it was just picked up from a LEGO store. Seal code 31R0. Truly bizarre how this ended up in stock after being gone for so many years. Well, no complaints. Should be one my easiest flips!

My wife used to sell cars so she handles the negotiations, I know that's not very manly, but it's part of our technique. We run a good cop/bad cop situation. I buddy up to the salesman, listen to all their BS, act line I'm on the hook, and then suddenly hand off the deal to my wife. She beats them up on price, having a good idea on what the margins should be, and then if we can't get to an agreement, we walk. You have to be willing to walk, they will call. They always call.

Framer’s have been here all week, and tomorrow they start demo of the interior to join the new with the old... supposed to be Christmas Eve and 12 degrees in the AM... we have greattiming. So here is a pic of the Lego table all shrink wrapped and boxed up, ready to get packed away until the new build table and lego city area is ready...

Got some Christmas light up:)

This is a picture of my city during a scenery switch back when adding service station modular. I don't yet have any city pics I'm super proud of just yet but may as well share anyway.

In the mean time I am working through some problems/opportunities. We will have trains, and I would prefer that they aren’t just on the first level. But... lego trains and inclines... so, my son and I were testing some solutions for adding a drive motor that would constantly run, but only engage when on the inclines... sort of like a cog railway. Video is too big... you can se it here: https://oneoriginalthing.com/2020/12/16/lego-cog-railway-and-mold-destruction/

My town. Fit a kwik e mart under the theater expansion.

My Lego Room: I come here after I fight with my wife to relax/recover. Still working on arranging sets due to spacing issues.

Bought 2 a while ago when they were -40%, built them, and modded them. Raised the arc by 2 1/3 to fit a train through, raised the pilars by 3, and took out all the moving parts. Shortened it to 80 studs to fit well into a Lego town, train running in between the modular houses (Pet shop works well here at 16 wide)

Stone Wars analyzed the poll results thus far . . . Still some time to go in the voting but looks like Bionicle is pretty far in the lead. [emoji22] https://www.stonewars.net/lego-news/interim-results-of-the-lego-ideas-90th-anniversary-survey/